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Interpretable Stochastic Block Influence Model: measuring social influence among homophilous communities
Yan Leng, Tara Sowrirajan, Alex Pentland
Decision-making on networks can be explained by both homophily and social influence. While homophily drives the formation of communities with similar characteristics, social influe…
Analysis of misinformation during the COVID-19 outbreak in China: cultural, social and political entanglements
Yan Leng, Yujia Zhai, Shaojing Sun +6
COVID-19 resulted in an infodemic, which could erode public trust, impede virus containment, and outlive the pandemic itself. The evolving and fragmented media landscape is a key d…
Profiling presence patterns and segmenting user locations from cell phone data
Yan Leng, Haris Koutsopoulos, Jinhua Zhao
The dynamic monitoring of commuting flows is crucial for improving transit systems in fast-developing cities around the world. However, existing methodology to infer commuting orig…
Contextual Centrality: Going Beyond Network Structures
Yan Leng, Yehonatan Sella, Rodrigo Ruiz +1
Centrality is a fundamental network property which ranks nodes by their structural importance. However, structural importance may not suffice to predict successful diffusions in a…
Familiar Strangers: the Collective Regularity in Human Behaviors
Yan Leng, Dominiquo Santistevan, Alex Pentland
The social phenomenon of familiar strangers was identified by Stanley Milgram in 1972 with a small-scale experiment. However, there has been limited research focusing on uncovering…
Large-Scale Experiment on the Importance of Social Learning and Unimodality in the Wisdom of the Crowd
Dhaval Adjodah, Shi Kai Chong, Yan Leng +2
In this study, we build on previous research to understand the conditions within which the Wisdom of the Crowd (WoC) improves or worsens as a result of showing individuals the pred…